Minnesota · Nonprofit
Lewis Sports Foundation
Lewis Sports Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,011 to it, the largest being BLAZE CREDIT UNION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Lewis Sports Foundation does
Mission
To provide youth with the tools to develop life skills through education and physical activity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our grant and scholarship program supported over 70 individuals and organizations in Minnesota and across the country. The attraction to our funding program resulted in meeting the overwhelming needs of our recipients.
Our Academic Coach program achieved sustained partnerships at two St. Paul public schools and one school in Woodbury. St. Paul Johnson High School and East Ridge High School have continued our partnership through the 2025-26 academic year. Our academic coaches currently support the academic and life development needs of over 70 active students. Our academic initiatives also debuted at Freedom summer school in St. Paul where we presented life skills lessons to several groups of summer school students.
$4,572 spent30% of program spendingOur physically active programs exceeded our plans this summer. Due to our new partnership with YMCA of the North, we extended our Cross Skills Challenge to several of their Sports Sampler programs. Over 100 young people participated in these metro wide events. We look forward to partnering with YMCA next summer to expand our Cross Skills Challenge to more communities.
$5,216 spent35% of program spendingSimilarly, we were honored to partner with Stairstep Foundation to present its Church Olympics activities. We managed the annual event that offered physical activities to over 100 youth and adults who demonstrated good effort and fun on behalf of their church
$5,271 spent35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,059.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $89k to $110k (+24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Lewis Sports Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $13 → $13k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Lewis Sports Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Lewis Sports Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Lewis Sports Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Lewis Sports Foundation's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Lewis Sports Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Lewis Sports Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lewis Sports Foundation?
- Lewis Sports Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,011 to it, the largest being BLAZE CREDIT UNION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lewis Sports Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,011 in grants to Lewis Sports Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lewis Sports Foundation?
- BLAZE CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lewis Sports Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing